David Roel

3-02. Privileging Those Without Privilege

10:26 - love all sentient beings without exception... 13:30 - structures of consciousness are not chosen... 26:34 - the bulk of development rests with the infant... 34:41 - meditation is the most effective thing demonstrated to move people through the stages... 37:12 - and even then, the... Read More

3-01. Ken's Introduction to Stages

0:10 - both structures of consciousness and states of consciousness can unfold in stages, but states of consciousness usually don't, and structures of consciousness almost always do... 1:16 - a structure is any stable pattern... 2:10 - the whole often determines what the parts do... 2:22... Read More

2-04. Spiritual Practice and Cultural Embedment

8:08 - structures of consciousness have a hand in the structure and form of phenomena that appear... 8:20 - there are a priori conditions that determine the type of phenomena that do appear... 8:55 - pre-Kantian thinking is called metaphysical, post-Kantian is called critical... 9:01 -... Read More

2-03. Kosmic Address and the Pauli Exclusion Principle

4:51 - self-reflexive awareness doesn't get started until second person... 5:14 - self-reflexive introspective awareness doesn't get started until orange... 6:19 - an electron interprets its shell as empty or full (not self-reflexively)... 14:02 - a holon has its own unique perspective... Read More

2-02. 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-Person Perspectives

15:56 - when you can have a perspective on another's perspective, you start to transcend your own... 16:09 - every holon up to red is stuck in its own perspective (1st person perspective)... 16:30 - when red hits, concrete operational thinking emerges, the ability to think about... Read More

2-01. Quadrants and the "Big Three"

12:10 - A boundary creates a universe (cf. G. Spencer Brown)... 13:18 - saying that a universe comes into existence when you demarcate an inside from an outside is the same thing as saying that the subject of one moment prehends the previous moment's subject as object (cf. Whitehead)...... Read More

1-05. Misinterpreting States and Stages

9:21 - quadrant absolutism... 18:39 - structures are structures of first person consciousness... 18:49 - bodies hold up the structures... 21:21 - technically, gross, subtle and causal do not apply to consciousness - they apply to matter/energy bodies in the upper right quadrant... 24:35... Read More

1-04. Uniting Multiple Disciplines

6:44 - development to second tier is necessary for even understanding this stuff... 10:41 - fear diminishes at second tier...